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  On 7/2/2021 at 12:08 AM, CanAm1980 said:

Your point was that the Union started the civil war, which is not true.

 

 

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I never said that and would not agree with that.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

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  On 7/2/2021 at 12:45 AM, Boiler said:

I never said that and would not agree with that.

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  6 hours ago, Boiler said:
"You really think that the the North would have gone to war for that reason alone?"

 

I guess we could parse it another way, but this points to the Union having initiating agression. That is counterfactual.  

 

 

 

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  On 7/2/2021 at 2:14 AM, CanAm1980 said:

  6 hours ago, Boiler said:
"You really think that the the North would have gone to war for that reason alone?"

 

I guess we could parse it another way, but this points to the Union having initiating agression. That is counterfactual.  

 

 

 

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I have to agree with Boiler -- "going to war" doesn't necessarily mean that the army is initiating the aggression. It could be responding to aggression. 

 

Everything else I read in here about how lucky some slaves were to be bought and sold like horses and cattle just because they weren't tortured is disgusting in my opinion. 

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  On 7/2/2021 at 12:19 AM, CanAm1980 said:

Here is some reading about the Civil war revisionist to kick your effort off.

https://www.publicbooks.org/big-picture-confederate-revisionist-history/

 

The plain truth is that the Confederate states launched an unconstitutional armed insurrection against the legitimate government of the United States that resulted in the death of more than 700,000 Americans, more than in all other American wars combined. A revolt to preserve slavery is not something Americans should honor with stately monuments or florid displays of the Confederate Battle Flag. In reality, these symbols are tokens of a bloody war fought in defense of a dehumanizing institution, whose only purpose was to enrich a class of wealthy property owners while giving otherwise oppressed poor white Southerners someone even lower on the totem pole to look down upon. It is not a pretty picture.

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Because it's history. If you visit the historic site in Cebu, at which Lapulapu killed the the head of the occupying army( Magellan ), you will find a statue of Magellan right alongside Lapulapu. When I asked my brother in law why the Philippines would erect a statue of someone that invaded their country, he replied, Because it's history 

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  On 7/2/2021 at 3:42 PM, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

Because it's history. If you visit the historic site in Cebu, at which Lapulapu killed the the head of the occupying army( Magellan ), you will find a statue of Magellan right alongside Lapulapu. When I asked my brother in law why the Philippines would erect a statue of someone that invaded their country, he replied, Because it's history 

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Not all history needs to be memorialized in a statue. If you want a statue of Robert e Lee at a battlefield, perfectly fine. If you want a statue of Mussolini in the Jewish quarter of Rome, you are trying to make a statement. Just move the civil war statues out of the town square, simple.

 

Most of us are old enough to remember that when Saddam Hussein left town, the residents got out their nastiest shoe leather and commenced to whoopin

 

 

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  On 7/2/2021 at 7:09 PM, CanAm1980 said:

Not all history needs to be memorialized in a statue. If you want a statue of Robert e Lee at a battlefield, perfectly fine. If you want a statue of Mussolini in the Jewish quarter of Rome, you are trying to make a statement. Just move the civil war statues out of the town square, simple.

 

Most of us are old enough to remember that when Saddam Hussein left town, the residents got out their nastiest shoe leather and commenced to whoopin

 

 

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This was honestly one of the dumbest moves we did during our time in Iraq. We should never have torn it down but allowed the Iraqis to do it. This ultimately led to us doing De-Ba'athification, which led to the insurgency. 

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  On 7/3/2021 at 8:22 PM, CanAm1980 said:

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have you checked out the various 6 flags amusement parks?

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I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy.

 

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4 nil up btw

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

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There will be tears and tantrums.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

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I'm imagining one singular tear dropping down my husband's face at the end of this, while he tries to look stoic. :lol: He has been curiously absent from the living room since 11:30 am.

 

Wait, what is this thread about?

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  On 7/3/2021 at 8:36 PM, laylalex said:

Yeah, I'm kind of flying the English flag today myself. Well, metaphorically. I can't see a real English flag lasting long in this home.

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I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy.

 

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Lots of Ukrainian flags going cheap in Scotland

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

 

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